Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-06-08

  1. LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don’t know what to do human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev - 948 comments 988 points
  2. Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony gavinray97.github.io - 285 comments 650 points
  3. Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux github.com - 283 comments 502 points
  4. How’s Linear so fast? A technical breakdown performance.dev - 194 comments 420 points
  5. Dopamine Fracking igerman.cc - 160 comments 342 points
  6. Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints arstechnica.com - 209 comments 330 points
  7. Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it github.com - 57 comments 324 points
  8. DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision runtimewire.com - 128 comments 281 points
  9. Making peace with your unlived dreams - 2023 nik.art - 137 comments 234 points
  10. APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs teenage.engineering - 110 comments 214 points
  11. The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python ranpara.net - 34 comments 205 points
  12. Vitamin D3 During Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance at 10 Years jamanetwork.com - 82 comments 185 points
  13. New drug ‘functionally cures’ many hepatitis B virus infections www.science.org - 31 comments 181 points
  14. 1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse www.troyhunt.com - 61 comments 158 points
  15. The OnlyFans Economy of American AI leoveanu.com - 198 comments 143 points
  16. The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games www.bbc.com - 139 comments 139 points
  17. Office-open-xml-viewer: Office XML document viewer that renders to HTML Canvas github.com - 52 comments 136 points
  18. A Matter Wi-Fi Light Bulb in Rust on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W github.com - 15 comments 123 points
  19. 1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background 1worldflag.com - 104 comments 121 points
  20. Podman 6: machine usability improvements - 2025 blog.podman.io - 6 comments 117 points
  21. Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests www.reuters.com - 80 comments 112 points
  22. If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II arxiv.org - 112 comments 111 points
  23. Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding www.phoronix.com - 18 comments 111 points
  24. Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring algorithmichiring.github.io - 44 comments 102 points
  25. 7.8 magnitude earthquake shakes part of southern Philippines. Tsunami possible www.yahoo.com - 27 comments 96 points
  26. Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948 www.righto.com - 28 comments 88 points
  27. The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy www.science.org - 122 comments 83 points
  28. Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime timesofsandiego.com - 39 comments 83 points
  29. The Cypherpunk Library www.cypherpunkbooks.com - 8 comments 83 points
  30. Why isn’t the U.S. better at soccer? www.natesilver.net - 244 comments 82 points